Dr. Sarah's Math 4141: Differential Geometry Capstone Spring 2018
The best way to contact me outside of class is during office hours
or on the ASULearn Forum,
as I usually check the posts daily, even on weekends.
Office
Hours this week:
Syllabus
Capstone Project
The course activites and assignments are on ASULearn.
Here is a
tentative calendar.
Work is due on ASULearn by 11:55pm Friday unless otherwise noted, and detailed activities are described there. You will also meet with me periodically to
discuss progress and challenges.
- Friday 1/19: Introduction to LaTeX and the course
1. Dr.
Bauldry's An Incredibly Brief Introduction to LaTeX
2. LaTeX Software and Testing template1.tex
3. Syllabus
4. Find a peer in the 4141 capstone to work with periodically (I'll facilitate this before or after class)
5. Answer the following:
What is the name of the peer in the capstone that you will work with periodically?
What is your prior experience, before this week, with LaTeX, if any?
How did it go when you tried compiling template1.tex into a PDF?
Any questions on anything, including the syllabus?
6. Survey on scheduling
- Friday 1/26: Introduction to the capstone project and careers in mathematics (Peer Activity)
1. Read the Capstone Project
2. Selection of preliminary topic for capstone project: First-Come, First-Served on ASULearn
3. Appalachian's Career Development Center
4. Meet with YOUR PARTNER to discuss your plans for the first year after graduation from Appalachian, and your long-term career plans, and be able to summarize what THEIR plans are.
5. Answer the following:
What is your partner's name?
What are their plans for the first year after graduation from Appalachian?
What are their long-term career plans?
What are your plans?
(optional) Any questions about the career development center or capstone project?
(optional) Anything that I should know about you so that I can best meet your needs as a student/understand you better?
Meet with me during week 2 or 3
- Friday 2/2: Scholarly peer-reviewed sources
1. Videos and Library and General Sources
2. Answer the following:
Briefly summarize some important points in the videos (informal bullet points are fine here).
List three quality sources related to historical connections or real-life applications of your preliminary topic, and identify the sources as peer-reviewed or not.
Include at least one scholarly peer-reviewed source, and indicate how you can tell that it is.
To try to find some diverse people and cultures who contributed to your topic in some way. Report back on how this search went.
- Friday 2/9: Part 1 of the capstone project
- Friday 2/16: How to Write Mathematics (Peer Activity)
Read "How to write mathematics"
by Paul Halmos.
Enseign. Math. 16 (1970), 123-152 and discuss this with your partner.
Meet with your partner to discuss the article and share your own experiences writing in mathematics.
List some aspects from the reading and discussion with your partner that
surprised you or your partner, that you found interesting, disagreed with, or had a question
on.
- Friday 2/23: Preliminary bibliography
Meet with me to discuss progress and challenges
- Friday 3/2: Guidelines for Good Mathematical Writing
Read "Guidelines for Good Mathematical Writing" by Francis
Edward Su.
Name at least two aspects from the reading that
surprised you, that you found interesting, disagreed with, or had a question
on.
- Friday 3/16: Capstone survey
The survey is accessible by this link as long as you are logged in to Appstate gmail:
https://goo.gl/forms/CA7kmmFykZ8JzPep1
PDF version
- Friday 3/23:
Read through the rubric
Look at
LaTeX
Mathematical Symbols [for anything not on this, I google "LaTeX code" and the
name of the symbol and work on first draft
Work on the first draft, which is due next week, by
modifying the template in this link
Meet with me to discuss progress and challenges
- Friday 3/30: First Draft is due to your partner (Peer Activity)
by modifying the template in the link.
- Friday 4/6: Peer review of your partner's draft (Peer Activity)
Send substantive comments to your partner about their draft via the partner forums or similar
Keep your peer's comments as you'll bring them into office hours by Thur 4/19 to show them
to me.
- Friday 4/13: Read your peer's comments and use them to improve your draft (Peer Activity)
Meet with me by Thur 4/19 to discuss progress and challenges and bring your partner's writing comments with you
- Thursday 4/19 by 3:30: Second Draft due as a printed copy
- Friday 4/27: Writing in How to Create Your Own Universe in Three Easy Steps
For 4040, you'll be reading "How to Create Your Own Universe in Three Easy Steps" by Lawrence Brenton, Math Horizons April 2011, pp. 5-9.
Reflect on the writing. Identify at least three strengths and/or weaknesses of how Brenton presented mathematics, especially in reference to Paul Halmos' and Francis Su's ideas from past readings.
- Final Exam Period: Capstone Project is due as a printed copy by Thursday May 10 at 2pm